Alexander Hamilton/burr-hamilton Duel

Famous quotes containing the words hamilton and/or duel:

    “Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.”
    —Gail Hamilton (1833–1896)

    “She is very clever.
    She is old, old, old, she must live another year, and she knows it.
    While in their fingerjoint cells the new virgins

    Dream of a duel they will win inevitably,”
    —Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)